Saturday, February 27, 2016

Vegan Activists Threaten Restaurant Over Valentine's Day Menu

Vegan activists threatened a restaurant in the United
Kingdom over its Valentine’s Day menu. Mark Dixon, the award winning chef at
Kings Arms at Fleggburgh, decided against offering the expensive dish during
Valentine’s Day dinner this year after being subjected to “harassment,”
apparently even including death threats,
the Guardian reported recently. Dixon posted the Valentine’s Day menu on
Facebook in January. At a cost of 50 pounds per diner, potential guests were
invited to indulge in a specialty tasting menu that included vodka cured
salmon, grilled halibut, Foie Gras and chicken liver parfait. The last two items in particular drew the ire
of activists (because the fowl are deliberately overfed), resulting in the
restaurant being bombarded with calls, threats and fake reservations.

“We
have listened to every opinion but when people go as far as ringing our staff,
constantly, calling them murderers and death threats we class this as
harassment and also inhumane to humans on the vegans behalf, and completely
disgusting and unacceptable,” read a Kings Arms Facebook post shortly
thereafter. “To stop this unfair behavior on our staff we have decided to
remove the Foie Gras from the menu and apologize to all of our customers who
enjoy our parfait dish.”

You can
be sure these same vegans and vegetarians who threatened to kill this
restaurant’s employees for the crime of serving Foie Gras never got close to
working up this much indignation over recent Islamic terror attacks.

Perhaps
it’s true…you are what you eat. These “activists” have certainly consumed more
than their fair share of vegetables… and nuts.

Daily Trivia Quiz Answer

Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).

Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?

A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"

An Ode To Life

Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.

And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.

Fireworks of the Mind

Write It Up

Whence Shall Come Another?

True Then, True Now

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

Time Well Wasted

The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays